Formatting Requirements for the Extra Credit Essay Question
Regardless of which topic you choose, here are the formatting requirements for your Essay. Points 1. through 3. are required, Points 4. and 5. are only suggested and not required – if these requirements are met, submission of an essay in this forum will earn you eight extra credit points:
1. First three paragraphs MUST be at least EIGHT sentences each in length (can be longer, can have additional paragraphs; this length is minimum and quite acceptable requirement.
2. You must list at least three specific points the video clip or reading shows that are relevant to the present health crisis around the COVID-19 virus, and then discuss each in enough depth that it is clear to me you have really listened and thought about them.
3. What specific institutions and power structures might be threatened by the information presented in this video or reading?
4. What are your views on the censorship of this and other health-related questions? Is the First Amendment relevant in this connection?
5. Can you connect the work you discuss, and any of these points in the preceding (2.) or (3.) to themes or readings in our course?
